[TexasKamaAina]

>>Should have gone for his baton first. His? My guess is hers.

I agree. Female officers escalate to lethal response more readily than males.

[Tired of Taxes]

The officer is a man according to a statement from the school itself:

http://www.southalabama.edu/shtml/crimealert.pdf

"...the officer fired one shot with his police sidearm..."

P.S. (The first article kept referring to "the officer" without using a pronoun, so many of us probably were thinking this might be a female cop.)